Textile fragment with three parallel bands with an interlacing chain
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with three parallel bands with an interlacing chain
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, brown, and black silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.572
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Catalogue text
Three parallel bands, the centre one blue, the two outer ones brown. The blue band has a row of interlacing chain, the two brown bands have a diagonal step design. The design is worked in double running stitch, but in addition there is a line of single cross stitch bordering each band.
The fabric is very loosely woven.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, vol. iii, vol. i
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